Young or old, job seekers are increasingly being directed to apply online, but is something lost in the digital exchange?

Boy did last week’s stories on the Temporary Foreign Worker Program ever get a lot of reaction, including, but not limited to: McDonald’s Canada pulling out of the program (temporarily, of course, and then landing in hot water later when the company’s Canadian head called concerns over the program bull—t, oops); Tim Hortons taking over two stores from a franchisee who allegedly bullied workers into forking over some of their overtime pay; and then, ... Read More …

BY: KELLIE ANN BENZ
Are you one of those people who asks ‘how’d that get on TV?’. Ever watched a movie and thought ‘which braintrust funded that?’.
I’m not going to maple-wash it for you. Canada’s reputation for making dismal film and TV is only recently elevating above ‘it wasn’t terrible’.
We’re only JUST starting to make watchable series, TV shows like Rookie Blue, Flashpoint, Durham County, Less Than Kind and the recent Gemini Award ... Read More …

The NFB is screening a pair of well-hyped documentaries at this year’s festival, including Surviving Progress. The film is based on the bestselling work by Canadian author Ronald Wright, co-produced by Martin Scorcese and featuring the music of Canadian musician Patrick Watson.
Here are the descriptions of the films, via VIFF:
SURVIVING PROGRESS
Surviving Progress, directed by Mathieu Roy and Harold Crooks, is a cinematic requiem to progress-asusual, inspired by Ronald Wright’s bestseller A Short ... Read More …